The 2.3m tall, $110,000 statue of the rugby league great will be unveiled outside Canberra Stadium at noon tomorrow, ensuring fans of Big Mal are forever reminded of the man and the moment after he scored the icing-on-the-cake try in the 1994 grand final, his last match in Canberra Raiders colours.

The bronze statue, paid for by the ACT Government as part of its public arts program, was commissioned last year, shortly after Meninga was recognised as a member of Australian rugby league's team of the century. It stands on a 2m plinth and captures the same iconic pose which the Raiders have had struck on their best-and-fairest medal.

According to Canberra Stadium general manager Neale Guthrie, Meninga has been sculpted to the same scale as the nearby Laurie Daley, but there's ''a bit more bronze in Mal than there is in Laurie.''

Guthrie added, ''In the creative process we kept going back to them and saying, 'no those thighs just aren't big enough'.''

Raiders chief executive Don Furner is one of the few who have had a sneak peak at the statue and says it is a fitting tribute to the former Raiders, Queensland and Australian captain, for whom the main stand at the stadium is already named.

''It'll stay there forever hopefully and without doubt it remembers a great time in our club's history and also Canberra's history,'' Furner said.

Sculptor Cathy Weiszmann is responsible for the popular statues of Dally Messenger and vocal spectator 'Yabba' at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

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